1. أنا لا أزور جنان ذاك الجاني

    وأشيم فيه غلاظة البستاني

    I do not visit that wrongdoer's gardens,

    In whom I discern the gardener's coarseness,

  2. والأعجميات القليلات الوفا ال

    متلصفات على أولي العرفان

    Nor the foreign women, scant in faithfulness,

    Who put on airs before those of understanding.

  3. ولدي من غيد الشآم غريرة

    راحي لماها والخدود جناني

    And I have a guileless girl among Syria's graceful maidens;

    Her dusky lips are my wine; her cheeks, my gardens.

  4. بيضاء صافية الأديم كأنها

    مشكاة نور أو زجاجة حان

    Fair and clear-skinned, as though she were

    A niche of light, or a tavern's glass flask.

  5. وفَّت عهود محبها بوصالها

    وتبرَّرت من تهمة الهجران

    She kept her pledges to her lover by granting him union,

    And cleared herself of the charge of abandonment.

  6. واللَه لا استبدلت أصغر بلبلٍ

    من حجلها ببلابل العيدان

    By God, I would not trade the tiniest nightingale

    Of her anklet for the nightingales of the boughs.